Sunday, September 24. 2017

After close to two weeks of deriving, "Archival Selections 028" is finally completely populated. This release is crucial to the Mystified archive (as well as Mister Vapor, AutoCad and Thomas Park). 71 videos are available, each representing an entire album. Each is in high definition. The videos can easily be streamed from the release page, or downloaded in .wmv, .mp4, .ogg video or H.264 form. Thomas hopes that archive.org will be a reliable and long-lasting home for these special items:

When mystified was part of the noise scene, in the late oughts, I had a lot of success. I was most prolific during this period. I used to visit the Troniks bulletin board a lot. Critically my stuff didn't do as well, but it seemed to be easy to find interesting labels to release with. My goal at the time was to provide a calming influence to the noise scene. I wanted to create noise that was minimal, drone-like and hypnotic. A lot of stuff from that time was very cold and steady-- maybe a bit like noise meets science fiction.

Saturday, September 23. 2017

A strange thing about being mystified, over those 15 years, was you found that you had followed your nose, and you had really wandered off somewhere. The material seemed normal enough to me, but in retrospect, it was pretty weird. Way out there for most folks. Extremely cold, minimal drones. Industrial sound collages. Music made from sferics or NASA sounds. . . shall I mention. . . "Polka Drones".

"What's that your doing, Son, at 3 AM?"

"Oh, just making acoustic drones by timestretching, tuning and layering snippets from public domain polka records."